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r A � TO: MAYOR & CITY COUNCIL FROM: CLERK -ADMINISTRATOR PAUL Y DATE: SEPTEMBER 26, 1989 SUBJECT: RACING PIGEON REGULATION Pursuant to your direction, I have researched the issue of regulating racing/carrier pigeons. The amount of information that is available without conaucting a national search is extremely limited. Apparently the issue of regulating racing/carrier pigeons by local governments was first addressed during the urbanization of metro area beginning with the center cities in the 50s and the suburbs in the 70s and 80s. There are no State laws regarding racing or carrier pigeons except to include them in the class of unprotected animals in the State thus subject to being hunted during a specified season. With the assistance of the league of Minnesota Cities. I have obtained a sampling of ordinances from various cities regulating racing/carrier pigeons. The methods of regulation include the following, 1. Complete prohibition. This would appear to be true for the majority of the cities in the metro area. 2. Prohibition within urbanized parts of a community. Some suburbs on the fringe of the metro area, e.g. Savage, Prior Lake and Lino Lakes, have established Urban and Rural Service Areas within their communities. The definition of rural and urban might be different, but the regulation is similar in that pigeons are allowed in rural areas only. 3. Allowed with permit. The cities of St. Paul, Coon Rapids, West St. Paul, Richfield and Robbinsdale allow the keeping of pigeons within their communities when a permit has been issued, but that is where the similarity ends. Each of these communites has different provisions regarding the number of pigeons that may be kept, consent by adjacent property owners and the distance involved, location and construction of the loft, sanitary conditions, and level of confinement of birds to the loft. Before proceeding any further in the process of developing a draft ordinance which would allow racing/carrier pigeons in the City, I would like to solicit your direction on some of the issues that have come out in my research. I woula like to place before you several questions and ask for your consensus response to each. After receiving your response I will be able to draft an ordinance which will be reflective of your .ires in this matter. the questions are as follows, 1. Do you wish to regulate the presence of rar.ina/carrier pigeons in the City by issuing permits, _. Should the permits be issued by the City Council or admini•;tratively'